Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

Basic rules can help adapt recipes for the cooking speed you choose

It’s winter: We’ve nested inside, we’re ready for stews and braises, but we’re still strapped to that infernal invention, the clock. There are rarely enough minutes, at least not when we wan...

DATE: Jan 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Quakers reschedule talk in series about faith

The fourth discussion in a six-session series about Quakerism (the Religious Society of Friends) has been rescheduled. It will now be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 22 at Durango Friends Meeting, 803 ...

DATE: Jan 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion

Guided hike at Mesa Verde to explore how ancestral Puebloans survived winter

A free guided hike, called “Weathering Winter: Ancestral Pueblo Strategies for Winter,” will be offered at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at Mesa Verde National Park. Attendance is li...

DATE: Jan 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Taco Bell is going national with fried chicken taco shell

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) â€” Taco Bell plans to go nationwide this month with its latest concoction: a taco with a shell made entirely out of fried chicken. Taco Bell says the shell of...

DATE: Jan 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

On chilly day, annual bird count tallies 76 species in Durango

30 volunteers make event a success

DATE: Jan 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Durango Nature Studies to host wolf moon hike Thursday

Durango Nature Studies will host a full moon hike for the wolf moon from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Chris Park at Haviland Lake. Instructor Andrea Owens will lead the hike in s...

DATE: Jan 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

At Evenings Porch Assisted Living, healthful local food a key to program

In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf wrote, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Woolf was writing about equality, but this same turn of phrase can al...

DATE: Jan 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Calling all cooks! Send us your chili recipe for a chance to share it with the community

Do you fancy yourself a gourmet chef? Are you itching to share your personal penchant for food preparation? Do you want to show off your culinary skills for your fellow Herald readers? Here’...

DATE: Jan 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society to meet Jan. 11

The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will hold a public meeting Wednesday, Jan. 11, in the Lyceum at the Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies, 1000 Rim Drive. A pre...

DATE: Jan 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Meet the Fort Collins brewer who turned America sour

FORT COLLINS (AP) – On a snowy September day 20 years ago, Peter Bouckaert arrived in Fort Collins. American craft beer would never be the same. “I want to turn the who...

DATE: Jan 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

With death of a Shaker, storied sect on verge of extinction

Storied sect has two remaining members

DATE: Jan 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion

First United Methodist Church to begin sermon series Jan. 7, 8

First United Methodist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive, will begin a new sermon series called “Jesus – Myth, Messiah or Madman” this weekend. Sermons will be held at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and at 8, 9:...

DATE: Jan 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion